Viking_Yearbook_57

HBUS STOP" The Portland State Theater group was the first amateur organization in the nation to present William Inge's Pulitzer Prize Winner, "Bus Stop." The plot of this comic romance un­ folds in an isolated Kansas town after a bus and its curious assortment of passengers are detained during a storm. Included in the group are Cherie, who claims that "working in a night club ain't all roses," her determined admirer Bo, a rodeo cowboy, his faithful friend Virgil, and an ex-college pro­ fessor who finds contentment in a bottle. The antics that fol­ low are hilarious as Bo finally convinces Cherie that cows and the country can be even more exciting than singing in smoke­ filled night clubs. Ann Olson ___.______ ___ _ Cherie David Alexander __ .___ . Bo Gloria Torlai __ .. .. ... ____._ ___..._. Grace Mike Masse . The Professor Colleen Murray _ ..... .__.._ ..... Elma Bjorn Heglie ....... _ .................... ............. .... Virgil Monte Shelton ......_ ..............__... . Carl Paul Shockley ..... ...... . . . ....._........ ...... . Will Bo, the naive rodeo cowboy, and Cherie, the worldly wise chanteuse from Joplin, Missouri, seem to have a difference of opinion in this scene from William Inge's hit comedy. The leads were played by David Alexander and Ann Olson. Bo, the lanky young cowboy, who doesn't know The rather hard boiled Cherie giving a few words of advice much about women, talks over his problems with to Elma, the innocent countergirl with "big city" ambitions. his friend, Virgil. 182